A pressure robust staggered discontinuous Galerkin method for the Stokes equations

In this paper we propose a pressure robust staggered discontinuous Galerkin method for the Stokes equations on general polygonal meshes by using piecewise constant approximations. We modify the right hand side of the body force in the discrete formulation by exploiting divergence preserving velocity reconstruction operator, which is the crux for pressure independent velocity error estimates. The optimal convergence for velocity gradient, velocity and pressure are proved. In addition, we are able to prove the superconvergence of velocity approximation by the incorporation of divergence preserving velocity reconstruction operator in the dual problem, which is also an important contribution of this paper. Finally, several numerical experiments are carried out to confirm the theoretical findings.